A new version of Mozilla's popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer. The program's creators told Reuters on Thursday that the privately-held company's trial version of Firefox 3 browser is ready for the masses to use after months of development.

"Personally, I'm waiting for 3.01 .. they should have most of the kinks worked out by then

Uh, this is open source.. there are no kinks, remember? "

I don't think you have got that quite correct.

It is not the case that there are NO kinks in open source browsers, but rather just that they have far less kinks than in IE (and more functionality and standards compliance as well, but that observation is off the main point here).